It is Al Sharpton who is just as racist, if not more so, than Don Imus. At least Imus apologized. Sharpton has not yet apologize for this:
Tawana Brawley was a 15-year-old black female who attracted national attention after claiming that she was raped by white men on November 28, 1987 in Wappingers Falls, New York. Ms. Brawley indicated that she had been raped repeatedly in a wooded area by three white men, at least one of them a police officer. A rape kit was administered, and police tried to build a case.
Despite the lack of any evidence, the alleged incident soon became a media sensation, championed by Reverend Al Sharpton, the Democrat presidential aspirant, and two black attorneys, Alton H. Maddox and C. Vernon Mason. Public response to Ms. Brawley's story was at first mostly sympathetic. It was headline news across the nation. Public rallies were held denouncing the incident and racial tensions increased.
Sharpton, Maddox and Mason charged that the entire case was a coverup going all the way up to the state government. They named New York prosecutor Steven Pagones specifically, calling him a racist and a rapist, among other accusations.
By the time of grand jury hearings, six men had been accused of rape.
After seven months of examining police and medical records, the jury determined there was not enough evidence to charge anyone with a crime.
Following the grand jury decision, Ms.Brawley and her family moved quickly to Virginia, taking with them a "defense fund" of $300,000, which had been contributed by well-wishers.
Sharpton, Maddox, and Mason were later successfully sued for statements made in connection with the case, and ordered to pay $345,000 in damages.
Here is a point I found that ties this incident, in regard to Sharpton, to the Duke Lacrosse issue:
Before anybody fires Don Imus from the radio, Al Sharpton should be fired first. Imus refer to Rutgers’ basketball players as "nappy." Offensive.
Yet the Reverend Al accused Steven A. Pagones of raping one Tawana Brawley. Sharpton’s charge was false. Anybody with I.Q. above room temperature should have known Sharpton’s allegation were false. Yet Sharpton has never apolgized.
Crystal Gail Mangum falsely accused Collin Finnerty, Dave Evans, and Reade Seligmann of rape. Yet the Reverend Al, never saw fit to either defend Finnerty, Reade and Seligmann, nor did Sharpton ever criticize Mangum.
Sharpton is part and parcel in one effort to falely smear white males, and willfully silent in another smear job. As far as moral authority goes, I’ll take Imus over Sharpton anyday. Imus is the the one who is honest enough to admit what he is, to wit a shock jock. Sharpton is merely a race huckster, who refuses to admit such.
And here is what Sharpton said on April 18, 2006 in reagrd to the Duke rape charges:
BILL O'REILLY, HOST: Two Duke lacrosse players have been arrested and charged with rape among other violent crimes. They are free on $400,000 bail. As you may know, the students attended a party where a stripper hired by the lacrosse team said she was raped. With us now civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton. Is this a racial issue?
REV. AL SHARPTON, CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST: I think that there are certainly a lot of racial factors. Whether it is directly in the case, we'll see, because some reports said that there was racial language used. But I think that when you look at the racial atmosphere, when you look at the fact that there again were the allegations of racial statements, when you look at a lot of people feeling that they have been treated differently, where this girl has basically had a character charged in the media, there is a lot of racism that's in the air. Having said that, I commend a lot of the blacks and whites who stood vigil and to come together in that community to stand up for this girl. So I think in the midst of this, there is some good.
Déjà vu, another black woman charges white men for rape, and Sharpton playing the race card. Sharpton did not learn for the 1987 incident as today we find out this:
All along, the three Duke lacrosse players proclaimed they were innocent of charges they sexually assaulted a stripper. They were railroaded, they insisted, by a prosecutor who refused to believe them and ignored the facts.
It took more than a year, but on Wednesday, North Carolina’s top prosecutor finally agreed with them.
Attorney General Roy Cooper declared them innocent of all charges and delivered a blistering assessment of a district attorney he blamed for a "tragic rush to accuse."
Perhaps its time for Sharpton to accept Imus’s apology and start making apologies himself. But Sharpton is far too much of a racist to do that. And speaking of extreme racism, here is what Snoop Dogg said about those who want to compare his lyrics to what Imus said:
"It's a completely different scenario," said Snoop, barking over the phone from a hotel room in L.A. "[Rappers] are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We're talking about ho's that's in the 'hood that ain't doing sh--, that's trying to get a n---a for his money. These are two separate things. First of all, we ain't no old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC [which announced Wednesday it would drop its simulcast of Imus' radio show] going hard on black girls. We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them mutha----as say we in the same league as him."
So, I can say it, but not "old-ass white men"? Spoken like a true racist. This is straight out of the book of Cultural Marxism. The oppressed (blacks) can do and say what they want, but the elite (whites) can’t. So in the minds of the far-left, blacks can never be racists…even if the facts say otherwise. BS...it is time to tell Sharpton and Snoop Dogg to get a mirror when they start talking racism.
Because the Imus issue is only in the arena of the media, he is guilty and convicted in the court of public opinion. Fortunately in the court of law, the facts count.
